3-028-591 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The late Lord Broughton, 1869. Engraving from a photograph by Messrs. Maull and Co. 'The death of Lord Broughton, a member of the Whig Governments of Lord Melbourne and Lord John Russell, but more popularly known as Sir John Cam Hobhouse, the friend and fellow-traveller of Lord Byron in Italy and Greece, was lately recorded in our "Obituary," with a brief memoir of his personal career...The fourth and best canto of "Childe Harold," which has been thought by some readers the finest portion of all the poet composed, was dedicated to Hobhouse, who wrote the explanatory notes for it...Mr. Hobhouse, who cherished a strong political sympathy with the Liberal party throughout Europe, devoted a great deal of his attention to French affairs under the Restoration...In 1819, having written pamphlets in favour of Radical Reform, which were denounced in the House of Commons as seditious, he was arrested, by the Speaker's warrant, and imprisoned several weeks in Newgate...He held in succession the offices of Secretary for War, Chief Secretary for Ireland, Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests, and President of the Board of Control for India'. From "Illustrated London News", 1869.